Unwanted+Abortions

=**Not wanting an abortion doesn't always matter** =

The problem the pro choice movement ignores.

 [|**Abortion Turns Miracle to Double Tragedy**] Allegra Roseberry was dying when she discovered she was pregnant despite two decades of infertility. How she was robbed of her daughter and her life.

[|**Being Pro-Life Will Not Protect You From Abortion...**] Suzanne tells how a doctor misinterpreted her sickness and scars, and induced an abortion on her when she was too weak and drugged up to resist.

[|**Beware Maternal and Fetal Indications**] A look at how litigation-shy physicians often are too eager to prescribe abortions.

[|**District surgeon on rape charge**]  A London doctor is charged with raping an underage girl and forcing her to abort the fetus conceived during the rape.

[|**"Dolores" Meets George Tiller**] A patient accuses Tiller of having a severe lack of respect for choice.

[|**"Don't Like Abortions? Don't Have One!"**] The truth behind the slogan.

[| **Protection Against Coerced or Forced Abortion**]  From Abortion Concern.

[| **Ohio Law and Protecting The Rights of Pregnant Women**] This article specifically discusses the laws in the state of Ohio, but many other states have similar laws.

[| **Marla Cardamone, Abortion Death**] Marla was pressued to have an abortion based on the false assumption that her fetus was injured by her medications.

[| **Women's Injury Network Asking for Funding in Coerced Abortion Lawsuit**] A women's support network for victims of abortion violence have put out a call for funding assistance in a case involving a Portland, Oregon teenager injured by an abortion.

[| **Unwanted Abortion of a Wanted Child**] DeBakey informed Mr. and Mrs. Russell "that their child was a little girl," and that she had anencephaly. The Russells wanted the infant delivered by C-section "to give the child a chance to live if she could," but reported that DeBakey pressured them to choose abortion.

[| **The Women's Health Protection Act**] Model legislation proposed by The Elliot Institute.

[| **"Don't Like Abortions? Don't Have One."**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">David Reardon's research of post-abortion women showed that over 60% of them felt "forced" into unwanted abortions by people or circumstances. Nowhere is this more apparent -- or more dastardly -- than in the realm of "medically indicated" abortions.

[| **Protecting Yourself and Your Unborn Child**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Steps you can take to avoid being tricked into an abortion on false medical grounds.

[| **Coerced Abortions Highlight How Abortion Hurts Women**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">The task of gaining public support for a pro-woman/pro-life platform is not difficult. The issue of coerced abortions, for example, is ripe for the picking.

[| **Beware of "Maternal and Fetal Indications"**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Thanks to the efforts of abortion advocates, pregnancy is perceived as dangerous, and women are being steered by litigation-shy doctors into needless, unwanted abortions, ostensibly for maternal or fetal indications.

[| **Who's Making the Choice?**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Abortion advocates speak proudly of "freedom to choose," conjuring up images of women freely and autonomously making decisions that are "right" for them. But research into abortion decision making presents a far different picture.

[| **A Generation at Risk: How Teens Are Manipulated Into Abortion**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Many teens are simply not mature enough to understand the information they need to make such a life-impacting choice. As a result, they are at best only able to provide "misinformed" consent to an abortion.

[| **Abortion Whether You Want it or Not**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Just one example of a doctor who performed abortions on unsuspecting women, telling them their fetuses had already died.

[| **The Many Faces of Coercion**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Startling examples of coerced abortion around the world.

[| **Wantedness Is Irrelevant**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">You don't have to want an abortion to get one. All you have to do is trust your pregnancy care to an abortionist -- or, as the pro-choice like to say, "a doctor who performs the full range of obstetric and gynecological care."

[| **Pravin Thakkar, Anti-Choice Abortionist**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Just because a guy does abortions doesn't mean he's any friend to women, or a champion of choice. Pravin Thakkar stands as an example.

[| **Forced Abortion in America**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">A special report, in PDF format.

[| **We'll just assume we know what's best for you.**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Roe vs. Wade has certainly made it easy to get an abortion. As these women discovered, you don't even have to know that you're pregnant.

[| **Topic: Coerced Abortion**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">An eHealth forum.

[| **Forced Abortion**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Women tell their stories.

[| **Misled by Doctor**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Women learn too late that their doctors' urgings to abort were not made honestly.

[| **Stress and the Abortion Decision**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">The stress of a crisis pregnancy leaves women vulnerable

[| **Coerced by Male Partner**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Women's firsthand accounts of coerced abortions.

[| **Coerced by Parent or Parents**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Whatever their motives, parents pressuring their daughters into abortion are doing them irreparable harm.

[| **Abortion, Law, and Real Choice**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">How legalization facilitates coercion.

[|**Chinese Women Expose Coerced Abortion**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> Two women who have experienced the brutality of China's coercive population control programs are calling for President Bush to refuse funds to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

[| **Did Lorena Bobbitt Suffer From PTSD From Forced Abortion?**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Report claims Bobbitt cut off husband's penis because he forced her to have abortion.

[| **"Don't like abortion? Don't Have One!" Redux**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">If you spend any time poking around the [|Be Not Afraid] site, you'll notice a theme: Many of these women had to fight to avoid unwanted abortions.

[| **Forced and Coercive Abortions an "Epidemic" for U.S. Women**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> While the abortion lobby refers to abortion as a "woman's choice," in many instances, women feel as if they have no choice but to abort.

[| **D.C. Fire Dept. Fighting Allegations of Coerced Abortion**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">The Washington D.C. Fire Department is investigating claims that a department official suggested a female EMS employee have an abortion in order to keep her job.

[| **Allegations of coerced abortions by Scientology**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">From an anti-Scientology web site.

[| **Choice for whom?**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">The "choice" camp is increasingly opposed to the right to choose against abortion.

[| **Groups Take on Forced Abortion**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Several pro-life groups are calling for the plight of women coerced into abortion to be recognized in the platforms of the two major U.S. political parties.

[| **Women Deserve Better Than Abortion**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">From Feminists for Life, in PDF format.

[| **Forced Abortion and Sterilization in China: The View from the Inside**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Hearing before the House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights

[| **Shocking Forced Abortion Case at the U.S. Supreme Court**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Jane Roe II alleges that an abortionist violated the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances law when he had her restrained during an unsuccessful abortion, even though she demanded that he stop and let her leave.

[| **Pregnant Inmate Forced To Undergo Abortion To Be Eligible for Death Penalty in China**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Ma Weihua was arrested for transporting heroin from. Under China's criminal code, individuals convicted of trafficking that amount of heroin can be executed. However, prison doctors discovered that she was pregnant. Under Chinese law, pregnant women and people younger than age 18 cannot be executed.

[| **Forced Abortion Revealed**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">Donna Santa Marie's Forced Abortion Lawsuit Would Ask Supreme Court to Tackle Botched Abortions

[| **Forced abortion puts criminal code on trial**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> More on the Chinese woman forced to have an abortion so that she could be legally executed.

[| **Forced Abortion and Sterilization in Tibet**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> The implementation of China's draconian birth control programme in Tibet is a pillar of the policy to reduce Tibetans to a minority in their own country.

[| **Forced Abortion in East Turkistan**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> Erkin Mamat tells her story.

[| **Forced abortions for China-Taiwan couples**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> At least six Chinese women married to Taiwanese nationals have been requested to have abortions on visits home to the mainland, according to a Taipei Times report.

[| **Forced Aabortion, Birth Control, and Sterilizations**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> The authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region have stepped up the implementation of family planning policy with the despatch of 64 specially equipped vehicles to be used in different counties as mobile clinics.

[| **Expectant mother who screamed 'stop' will petition Supreme Court**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> More on Jane Roe II and Aware Woman.

[| **Why Do Abortion Advocates Tolerate Forced Abortion, Abandon Women?**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> Women and their families in China are being brutalized by population control officials who have no regard for human rights.

[| **Coercive Population Control in China: New Evidence of Forced Abortion and Forced Sterilization**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> Hearing Before the House Committee on International Relations

[| **One young woman's tragic account of forced abortion in China and America**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> A Chinese refugee tells her story.

[| **China's "One-Child Policy" Results In Forced Abortion**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> Shocking pictures of an apparent victim of China's one-child policy - a newborn baby girl lying dead in a gutter, ignored by passers-by - have prompted shock and revulsion in Britain.

[| **Defectors From North Korea Tell of Prison Baby Killings**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> More and more escapees from North Korea are asserting that forced abortions and infanticide are the norm in North Korean prisons, charges the country's official Korean Central News Agency has denounced as "a whopping lie."

[| **Chinese Woman Who Underwent Forced Abortion Accuses UNFPA**] <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;"> A woman who was forced to have an abortion and another woman who was a former "family planning administrator" in China accused the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) of supporting forced abortion in China.